Materialistic/ new age/ yoga people chanting

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Our Humble Obeisances Dear Maharajas Matajies and Prabhus, Jaya Srila

Prabhupada

 

We were just recently discussing with devotees how bhajans and kirtans are

getting more and more popular among different yoga-groups and esoteric

circles.

There is this Krsna dasa with his nicely selling albums, and others are

there. We just met with one somewhat popular astanga-yoga teacher from

Finland who had recently been in Krsna dasa`s concert in USA. He confirmed

that nowadays, every yoga-group likes to have some chanting in their

meetings, quite many are even droducing their own cd`s. Maha-mantra maybe

there but all other non-Vaisnava things also.

 

Of course you cannot put everybody under the same category, someone maybe

full mayavadi, someone prakrta bhakta, someones have certain principles

others hardly any.

 

But there are statements how chanting of the mayavadi is like milk touched

by the lips of a serpent, and how materialistic chanting is basically

nisphala-fruitless.

But on the other hand for example Bhagavatam 6th canto mentions how there

are great blessings even if chanted for musical entertainment or for joke.

 

We would like to hear comments, are these things positive in a sense that

people become interested about chanting in general, and may end up to Krsna

consciousness, or is it neutral or harmfull phenomena to us?

 

Your servant muniraja dasa